Pepperland, live at Eagle River Books, Bainbridge Island, WA, . This is a short (rather raw) cut from Pepper’s psychedelic night journey (that self-indulgent 3 record set) towards the end of the book. This one’s called “On a Bend in the River.” Don’t worry, there’s no long drum solo. Visit bltadwin.ru Barry Wightman’s first novel, Pepperland, a revolutionary, technology, rock ‘n’ roll love story, was published in , received a starred review on Booklist, and won a Silver IPPY for best fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards. He has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier VT and is past fiction editor of Hunger Mountain, a journal of the arts/5. Like a tight rock-n-roll song or elegantly written piece of computer code, Pepperland reflects its creator as an artist at the top of his game. Wightman captures the essence of the ’s with keen-eyed detail and a briskly-paced plot/5(18).
Pepperland, live at Eagle River Books, Bainbridge Island, WA, . This is a short (rather raw) cut from Pepper's psychedelic night journey (that self-indulgent 3 record set) towards the end of the book. This one's called "On a Bend in the River." Don't worry, there's no long drum solo. (Since this post, which was written in January , Pepperland, you'll be happy to know, is now finished. It rocks. Release date: .) So the review copy of Barry Wightman's still unfinished novel of the intersection of rock 'n roll, technology and love, Pepperland, showed up on my groaningly chaotic desk, tossed there by my boss who growled something like take a look at this. Pepperland has 9 "sides", like, you know, vinyl. We used to call 'em records. Anyway, each side has "tracks" or episodes. Each Side has a musical theme that, in some way, expresses the feel of what's going on. Side 1 is the Beach Boys' Wouldn't It Be Nice. Two smart, idealistic young people - Pepper [ ].
Pepperland is an optimistic look into a funhouse mirror, and it offers us proof that dreaming big isn’t really crazy after all." This book is a '70s rock'n'roll race through the heartland of America. It is a love letter to the power of new-fangled computers and the importance of the music at the time. Barry Wightman’s first novel, Pepperland, a revolutionary, technology, rock ‘n’ roll love story, was published in , received a starred review on Booklist, and won a Silver IPPY for best fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards. Pepperland is about missing information, missing people, missing guitars, paranoia, brothers, revolution, Agents of the Federal Government, IBM, Hugh Hefner, a Dark Stranger, love, death and the search for it amidst the wreckage of recession-wracked, entropically rundown mid-seventies America.
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